Facility Management

Whether in an urban or rural environment, BTS’s are expected to work on a 24x7x365 basis.
While modern equipment is designed with this kind of performance in mind, their supportive infrastructure usually doesn’t enjoy such rigorous dependability.

Air conditioners, for example, are there to maintain an ideal working temperature but if they fail, they can do more harm than good. The same holds true for mains power, batteries, standby generators and their fuel usage. They all exist to provide a working infrastructure until they fail.

Last but not least is the question of responsibility and responsiveness. Given that every key aspect of every BTS will be monitored and reported on, who will be responsible for actually doing something about the thousands of “alarm” conditions that can (and will) arise from normal operation?

The Solution

What’s needed is an intelligent approach to BTS alarm and equipment status monitoring that takes into account the key factors that contribute to an effective BTS supportive infrastructure and that can do something about rectifying problems without recourse to human intervention until absolutely necessary. In this way, problems can be addressed timeously and without imposing an unrealistic workload on human supervisors.

SAM is a highly cost-effective BTS monitoring and control system designed to assist you to get the most from your costly GSM network assets. One way to do this is through sustained traffic density resulting from the early detection and rectification of equipment and infrastructure failure before they become service-affecting.

SAM is designed for remote operation and central reporting while it will also assist technicians on site by reducing the amount of time they have to spend on commissioning, maintenance and fault diagnosis.

SAM was also designed to be flexible and future-proof by being able to be configured to address the varying requirements of most BTS sites. As such, some of the systems capabilities include:

Intelligent monitoring and regulation of cabin temperature and humidity.